HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 8/19/1942RECESSED REGULAR MEETING.
Lubbock,Texas
Aug. 19, 1942.
The City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, met at 8:30 A.M.
in Recessed Regular Session, recessed from Regular Meeting of August
139 1942, at the Regular Meeting Place in the City Hall, the following
members thereof being present, to -wit: !,
Mayor C E Slaton, Commissioners Hub Jones, W.B. Price, Garland Newsom,
Acting City Manager M.R. Smith,Jr. , City 11:,ttorney Durwood H Bradley,
C ..ty Secretary Lavenia Williams.
Absent: None.
Motion by Commissioner Hub Jones, seconded by Commissioner W B Price,
carried unanimously, that Returns of Secial Election held August 18, 1942,
to elect a commissioner for place two 2) to fill place vacated by
Commissioner W.G. McMillan, who resigned account having moved out of the
City Limits, be opened and canvassed and the results thereof declared -
thereupon, it was found that the candidates received the following votes:
J.O. Jones 1112
C.B. Hardin 102
C.W. Gunn 42
Powell McVlhirter 63D
Donald Duck 1
W.H. Rodgers 1
Thereupon, by motion of Commissioner W.B. Price, seconded by Commissio
Hub Jones, carried unanimously, it was ordered that J.O. Jones, having
received the highest number of votes cast, was duly declared elected t
the office of Commissioner Number 2, upon taking oath.
OATH OF OFFICE
I, J.O. Jones, do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will faithfully
execute the duties of the office of City Commissioner, of the State
of Texas, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and
defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this
State; and I furthermore solemnly swear (or affirm) , that I have not
directly nor indirectly -aid, offered, or promised to pay, contributed,
mr promised to contribute any money, or valuable thing, or promised
any public office or employment, as a reward for the giving or
withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected. So help me God.
(Signed) J.O. Jones
Subscribed and sworn to before ipe,
(Seal)
this 19th day of August, A.D. 1942.
Lavenia Williams
Notary Public, in and for
Lubbock County, Texas.
No further husiness coming up for consideration, the City Commission
adjourned.
Read and approved this the 27th day of August , 1942.
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